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The Rorists' Review 



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March 1W1921. 



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NEWS OF THE NURSERY TRADE 



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President Lloyd C. Stark is receiving 

 many indications of supjiort from mem- 

 bers of the A. A. N. in liis request that 

 Secretary John Watson reconsider his 

 resignation. 



LiNDENAvooD Xlrseries IS the name 

 given to tlie nursery established by the 

 Doswell Floral Co., Fort Wayne, Ind., in 

 connection with its new landscape garden- 

 ing department. 



Last week the Peterson Nursery, Chi- 

 cago, commenced its spring planting in 

 earnest and several big orders were filled. 

 This firm looks forward to a busier season 

 than ever before. 



Spring orders are more exacting than 

 fall ones. The customer may not mind 

 waiting througli the winter for his wants, 

 but when it comes to waiting all summer 

 for something that could not be delivered 

 in the spring, most customers cancel the 

 order and go elsewhere for stock. 



The Brainard Nursery & Seed Co., 

 Thompsonville, Conn., reports a rather 

 slow condition of trade. The annual cata- 

 logue has brought an abundance of in- 

 quiries which may result in orders later 

 on, it being the opinion that ornamental 

 planting will be indulged in more freely 

 than for some seasons past, owing to the 

 abundance of labor. 



Many nurserymen think that recent 

 criticism of the industry as a whole is al- 

 together uncalled-for. It certainly does 

 not seem probable, to say the least, that 

 a trade established country-wide should 

 be in a state of universal moral unsound- 

 ness. If the bad and the good in the 

 nursery business were compared with the 

 two extremes in almost any other trade, 

 there would probably be little difference 

 seen one wav or another. 



MORE STRICT INSPECTION. 



Ordered by r. H. B. 



The federal horticultural board has 

 found it necessary to cable the follow- 

 ing instructions to foreign inspection 

 officers: "Hereafter inspection must 

 be made at time of packing and must 

 certify freedom from pests and that 

 roots are washed free from earth." 



The requirement of inspection at the 

 time of packing, according to C. L. 

 Marlatt, chairman of the board, has 

 been necessitated by the abundant in- 

 festation with brown-fail moth and 

 other insect pests found notably in 

 shipments of rose and fruit stocks from 

 France, indicating perhaps that the in- 

 spection had been of a field nature 

 earlier in the season and did not neces- 

 sarily apply to the material at the time 

 of packing. News statements have al- 

 ready been issued relative to this situ- 

 ation. The actual findings of brown- 

 tail moth nests, for example, up to this 

 time have amounted to eighty-six nests, 

 substantially double the infestations 

 found in the previous 8-year period 

 under the quarantine. A radical im- 

 provrmont in the French inspection 

 service and in the condition of imported ' 



stocks must be made or the department 

 will be compelled to place an embargo 

 on French importations. 



Must Be Free of Soil. 



The requirement that roots of orna- 

 mentals and other plants shall be 

 washed free from soil has been neces- 

 sitated by the various degrees of com- 

 pliance by foreign exporters with this 

 provision of the regulations. Many im- 

 portations have come in with practi- 

 cally no effort at freeing the plants 

 from soil. In aggravated cases the 

 earth came in cubes as lifted with the 

 spade. All shipments which have 

 shown radical failure of observance of 

 this requirement of the regulations 

 have been and will be refused entry. 

 To properly enforce this requirement 

 of the regulations and to leave no 

 chance for question, hereafter all 

 rooted plants and plant roots other 

 than clean bulbs will be required to be 

 washed free from soil before shipment 

 from the country of export and to be 

 so certified by the foreign inspector 

 along with the certification of freedom 

 from insect pests and plant diseases. 



Cites Japanese Example. 



That such washing of plants is a per- 

 fectly possible proceeding, adds Mr. 

 Marlatt, has been frequently demon- 

 strated on the part of shipments nota- 

 bly from Japan. These shipments have 

 included such plants as azaleas, for 

 example, which have a dense, fibrous 

 root system. Large shipments of such 

 plants have been received with the 

 roots thoroughly washed and rebound in 

 bunches of moist sphagnum. Thus pre- 

 pared, these plants have come through 

 in perfect condition; in much better 

 condition, in other words, than where 

 an effort has been made to free the soil 



from the roots merely by shaking an 

 then protecting them with a scanty an 

 often ihdifferent packing of sphagnui 

 or other material. 



These requirements as to inspectio 

 and certification apply to all shipment 

 from countries which have provid* 

 for inspection and certification in co) 

 formity with the requirements of tli 

 plant quarantine act; in other word 

 both to general and special permit m; 

 terial. The requirement as to freein 

 the roots of plants from soil by wasl 

 ing applies to all countries. Th 

 authorizations which have been issue' 

 from time to time for the use of sub 

 soil, dune sand, coral sand (Bermuda 

 and ground peat fgr the packing o 

 bulbs is not affect^ by this actioii. 

 Such packing is, however, not author 

 ized for plants other than bulbs. 



SUPPLY AND DEMAND. 



A Short Market. 



We are all aware that good ornamental 

 stock is short in our markets today. 

 This is due to war conditions and th< 

 shortage of labor during the war period. 

 Then, too. Quarantine 37 has proved n 

 great loss and inconvenience to thi' 

 American trade. Good stock of dwarf or 

 low-growing evergreens is almost en 

 tirely exhausted. The same is true of 

 hybrid rhododendrons and other ever 

 green shrubs, which have heretofore 

 been imported in large quantities. True, 

 there are many dwarf evergreens beinj; 

 propagated, but these are of the more 

 common kinds which can be easily grown 

 from seeds and cuttings and even these 



From a paper read by A. B. Robinson, of 



Tvezington, Mass.. before the meeting of th'- 



New England Nurserymen's Association, at 

 Boston last month. 



As Sure As You Are a Foot High 



many items will be out of the market just when you want them. So why not get our 

 Bulletin right now? A postal card with business address will bring it— and you must 

 be interested in the following: 



APPLES, a general list; good kinds, too. 



PEARS, big quantity Bartlett. Also other varieties, 3 yrs. old, fine for retail trade. 



DWARF PEARS, too, at right prices. 



CHERRIES, not long on, mostly sour varieties. 



PEACHES, take no back seat in growing this item. Lots of Elberta, Carman and 

 J. H. Hale. 



ORNAMENTAL TREES, Norway, Silver and Ash Leaf Maples, from 6 feet up to 

 IS feet high. 



EVERGREENS, about cleaned out, except Arbor Vitae; a good quantity from 12 inches 

 up to 6 feet. 



BARBERRY THUNBERGIL You know we are the largest growers in the world. 



2 to 3-foot, 18 to 24-inch, and 12 to 18-inch grades. Also seedlings. 

 CALIFORNIA PRIVET, some nurserymen say it is out of the market; come to us; 



can offer you 2 to 3foot, 18 to 24-inch, and 12 to 18-inch, strong 2-year grade. 



AMPELOPSIS VEITCHU, strong 2-year grade. Also Seedlings at very low prices. 



FRENCH APPLE AND ROSE STOCK, quoted here at Manchester Most of them 

 trimmed ready to plant. 



ORNAMENTAL SHRUBS, you should see our list before you buy. 



ROSES, Climbing and H. P., a long list of scarce kinds. 



P''"5f lJi^,',J'^*,^J,^°IIV>?,°Jl " y°" wa"' SERVICE and GOOD STOCK this spring. 

 WE CAN SERVE YOU RIGHT. 



C. R. BURR & CO., Manchester, Conn. 



